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Nel 1950 venne scavata una villa romana in loc. Su Loi a Capoterra (Cagliari). L’intervento d’emergenza è documentato solo da uno schizzo e da 59 fotografie, ma grazie a queste ultime è stato possibile ricostruire la pianta dell’edificio... more
Nel 1950 venne scavata una villa romana in loc. Su Loi a Capoterra (Cagliari). L’intervento d’emergenza è documentato
solo da uno schizzo e da 59 fotografie, ma grazie a queste ultime è stato possibile ricostruire la pianta
dell’edificio e avanzarne il posizionamento geografico.
In 1950 it was excavated a Roman villa in loc. Su Loi in Capoterra (Cagliari). The emergency intervention is documented
only by a sketch and from 59 photographs, but thanks to them it was possible to reconstruct the plan of the
building and avanzarne the geographic positioning.
Interpretation of symbols and glyphs found on 1st Dynasty BCE to 18th Century CE artifacts, are a means of tracing the transformational journeys of Bes, the Egypto-Nubian deity. The wanderings, which began in Nubia and Upper Egypt,... more
Interpretation of symbols and glyphs found on 1st Dynasty BCE to 18th Century CE artifacts, are a means of tracing the transformational journeys of Bes, the Egypto-Nubian deity. The wanderings, which began in Nubia and Upper Egypt, continued north up the Nile into teeming markets and inns of port cities connected to the sea routes of the Mediterranean and Aegean and by land migrations west to Benin.
Beliefs based upon ancient Pygmy philosophy and tenets were incorporated into Bes as a divine representative. These views were spread by means of reciprocal gift systems, trade, migration and wars. The growing need for an accessible protector, healer and divine intermediary, spanning the distance from the Levant to the western Mediterranean was met by Bes, binding diverse communities into a common front against the external forces of disease and death.
As successive wanderings took place mostly in times of transition and upheaval, cultural contact between dissimilar populations malleably transformed images, names and myths associated with Bes and Pygmy ancestors. These complex results are comprehensively examined in this paper to help us successfully transition into a new era.
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Research on the prehistoric and proto-historic landscape in Sardinia (Italy) allows knowledge and analysis of the island's archaeological heritage. Besides, recent studies have aimed to delineate the type of relationship that the... more
Research on the prehistoric and proto-historic landscape in Sardinia (Italy) allows knowledge and analysis of the island's archaeological heritage. Besides, recent studies have aimed to delineate the type of relationship that the prehistoric and proto-historic societies established with the varie-gated Sardinian landscape in connection with the ways of articulation and territorial appropriation, without neglecting the important and fundamental aspect of economic organisation of the territory. From this point of view, we want to analyse, as a sample-area, the region that includes the communal territory of Mogoro, in central-western Sardin-ia. Particularly we studied the ways of anthropisa-tion and fruition of the landscape in proto-historic age, with the objective to reconstruct, through the study of the settlements and the relationships among them, some of the economic and social aspects of those groups of nuragic culture that enjoyed this area from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age. The area of Mogoro has been intensively investigated from the half of the past century; the investigations then culminated with the strati-graphical investigation carried out beginning in 1994 near the site of Cuccurada, the main centre of an articulated territorial system including a rich network of monuments related to the nuragic civilisation, such as nuraghi, giants' tombs and villages. In this work we present the results obtained through various research methods: geomorpho-logical analysis, spatial analyst GIS tools (Views-hed, Cost Surface and Least-cost path analyses) and multivariate analysis (cluster and principal components analysis) that allow us to set a new hypothesis on population dynamics in this area and to individuate, among proto-historical monuments, one or more homogeneous and distinguished groups, starting from a database that results from indexing geomorphological characteristics.
Binary identities normally characterize the archaeological account for the colonial encounter between Roman Empire and its provinces. Funerary archaeology can be determinant to overcome this duality if remains areanalyzed in the details... more
Binary identities normally characterize the archaeological account for the colonial encounter between Roman Empire and its provinces. Funerary archaeology can be determinant to overcome this duality if remains areanalyzed in the details as signs of possible actions, in order to reconstruct the practices involving the material culture and the body of the deceased and to see them in motion. This contribution, focused on a necropolis of central Sardinia, Masullas, offers some insights concerning the manipulation of certain parts of the bodies from ancient burials and their introduction in new ones as a way to bridge a certain community’s world to the past and solve, even if temporarily, dissatisfactions with precarious identities.
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- Death, Sardinia (Archaeology), Identity (Culture), Complexity
ABSTRACT: This documentary response sheet contains a series of sequential questions drawn from the video, NOVA/Pbs: Iceman Murder Mystery (shown in-class; also available online via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JySYyTA4Eo [53... more
ABSTRACT: This documentary response sheet contains a series of sequential questions drawn from the video, NOVA/Pbs: Iceman Murder Mystery (shown in-class; also available online via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JySYyTA4Eo [53 minutes]). This documentary summarizes the discovery and significance of the Iceman (Otzi), and includes more recent analysis, findings and interpretations regarding Otzi and his time period. These sequential questions aim to maximize both student attention to various pertinent points made throughout the documentary and greater retention of the materials covered by the documentary. In addition, the documentary has been vetted for overall content accuracy (albeit updated and/or corrected in-class), and selected to provide supplementary visual aids (e.g., images of regions, sites, finds, and other materials), additional specialist views (e.g., interviews), and other data to aid in student comprehension of the course lectures and readings from the textbooks. REVISED: Adding in a few new questions, the time markers for each question, and a full page of other documentaries and their links (Jan., 2024).
La Sardegna è un'isola da raccontare. Anche perché, nell'isola, la pratica del narrare si intreccia con la bellezza sfrontata della natura, la grazia dell'arte, l'epopea di un mondo arcaico restituito alla storia dall'archeologia. A... more
La Sardegna è un'isola da raccontare. Anche perché, nell'isola, la pratica del narrare si intreccia con la bellezza sfrontata della natura, la grazia dell'arte, l'epopea di un mondo arcaico restituito alla storia dall'archeologia. A partire da luoghi realmente esistenti, spesso insoliti e anche per questo strani, di volta in volta presentati al lettore – montagne, voragini e vallate, borghi e quartieri, chiese e grotte naturali, ville, foreste e castelli, pozzi, nuraghi e sorgenti – l'autore raccoglie e riporta alla luce i racconti custoditi dalla tradizione. Fanno la loro comparsa diavoli crudeli e mostri terribili, fantasmi misteriosi e santi potentissimi, animali, banditi, fate e amanti. Lasciando intravedere – oltre la superficie di una terra già di per sé fonte di stupore e meraviglia – un mondo magico e pieno di mistero.
One of the most important megalithic groups in Western Europe in terms of number and characteristics is the group of over 200 monuments of various types in Sardinia. It now seems to be confirmed that the rise of the megalithic phenomenon... more
One of the most important megalithic groups in Western Europe in terms of number and characteristics is the group of over 200 monuments of various types in Sardinia. It now seems to be confirmed that the rise of the megalithic phenomenon was during the culture of San Michele of Ozieri (Late Neolithic, 4000-3300 B.C.E.). The Sardinian dolmen graves, however, had a maximum distribution during the Chalcolithic, as evidenced by most of the finds from excavations. The phenomenon also shows a close relationship beyond Sardinia and especially with the monuments of Catalonia, Pyrenees, non-coastal departments of French-midi, Corsica and Puglia. About 90 dolmen graves of various types have been investigated, namely the simple type, “corridor” type, “allée couverte” type, and others of uncertain attribution, located in central-western Sardinia, and particularly in a significant area of ca. 3500 km2 coinciding with the historical regions of Marghine-Planargia, Middle Valley of Tirso and Montif...
La menorah e il simbolo piu ricorrente nelle iscrizioni e nei materiali ebraici, ma non sempre e stato ritrovato in contesti giudaici. In Sardegna, a Sulci, l’ipogeo di Beronice presenta quasi esclusivamente questo simbolo nelle... more
La menorah e il simbolo piu ricorrente nelle iscrizioni e nei materiali ebraici, ma non sempre e stato ritrovato in contesti giudaici. In Sardegna, a Sulci, l’ipogeo di Beronice presenta quasi esclusivamente questo simbolo nelle iscrizioni presenti che di recente sono state oggetto di nuovi studi piu precisi. Partendo dallo studio dei testi ci si sofferma su un’analisi dei significati del candelabro eptalicne e dei suoi contesti di ritrovamento.
Es werden spezielle Bronzen aus der frühen Eisenzeit Sardiniens (ca. 9.-7. Jh. v. Chr.) untersucht, die Boote mit Tierprotomen (hauptsächlich Rinder- bzw. Stierprotome) darstellen. Die Technik des Metallgusses sowie das Motiv dieser... more
Es werden spezielle Bronzen aus der frühen Eisenzeit Sardiniens (ca. 9.-7. Jh. v. Chr.) untersucht, die Boote mit Tierprotomen (hauptsächlich Rinder- bzw. Stierprotome) darstellen. Die Technik des Metallgusses sowie das Motiv dieser "Stierboote" brachten wahrscheinlich die Phönizier nach Sardinien, die um etwa 1050 v. Chr. auf der Insel landeten und dort Handelsniederlassungen und Gießereiwerkstätten gründeten. Der Beitrag untersucht sowohl die Herkunft dieser speziellen Bootstypen und ihren Verbreitungsweg von der Levante in den Westmittelmeer-Raum, als auch deren mögliche mythologische Bedeutung und ideengeschichtliche Hintergründe.
La présente contribution vise à préciser les aspects géographiques et chronologiques liés à l’apparition, au développement et au déclin d’un type de construction en pierre sèche localement appelée « torre ». Ces édifices monumentaux, qui... more
La présente contribution vise à préciser les aspects géographiques et chronologiques liés à l’apparition, au développement et au déclin d’un type de construction en pierre sèche localement appelée « torre ». Ces édifices monumentaux, qui présentent une forme de tour tronconique, sont élevés selon un cahier des charges architectural précis, et trouvent leur strict équivalent en Sardaigne avec les milliers de nuraghi monotorre du Bronze ancien et moyen. La publication du détail du maigre corpus des torre de Corse, ainsi que la révision des données chronologiques fournies par les fouilles et les prospections opérées ces cinquante dernières années, seront également l’occasion de souligner l’importance prise par ces monuments dans l’évolution de la construction du discours archéologique depuis les années 1960 et les travaux de Roger Grosjean.
La femme des mythes sardes se renouvelle aujourd'hui avec l'apport de la globalisation des spiritualités, mais c'est oublier un peu vite qu'un substrat local perdure sous la nouveauté. Cette toile de fond mythique embrasse les paysages... more
La femme des mythes sardes se renouvelle aujourd'hui avec l'apport de la globalisation des spiritualités, mais c'est oublier un peu vite qu'un substrat local perdure sous la nouveauté. Cette toile de fond mythique embrasse les paysages traditionnels de l'île, entre mégalithes et ruralité, mais elle emprunte la plupart du temps la voie des contes pour enfants.
La figure de la femme émerge particulièrement de ce tableau. Tour à tour crainte, honnie et respectée, la femme paradoxale des mythes sardes nous enseigne sur une société traditionnelle avare en mots.
L'articolo contiene una riflessione sulle statuette pertinenti alla culture preistoriche della Sardegna.
Un quadro delle presenze di materiali etruschi sull'isola.
Giuseppe Mercurio (1919-1994) was a linguist, a journalist, a writer, a pedagogist and a researcher of Sardinian folk traditions. The document highlights the steps that led to the posthumous publication of "Il Tesoro di Kala", originally... more
Giuseppe Mercurio (1919-1994) was a linguist, a journalist, a writer, a pedagogist and a researcher of Sardinian folk traditions. The document highlights the steps that led to the posthumous publication of "Il Tesoro di Kala", originally written in the 1960s. Other posthumous works of this sardinian scholar are:"S’Allega Baroniesa. La Parlata Sardo-Baroniese -Fonetica, Morfologia, Sintassi" (Milano 1997); "Actus Apostolorum" (traduzione integrale in sardo-baroniese). Giuseppe Mercurio was Paolo Mercurio's father .
A considerable number of statuettes from the first centuries of the Christian era appear in the Gallo-Roman cultural area representing a bull with three horns (→ taureau tricornu, taureau à trois cornes). Their size varies from a few... more
A considerable number of statuettes from the first centuries of the Christian era appear in the Gallo-Roman cultural area representing a bull with three horns (→ taureau tricornu, taureau à trois cornes). Their size varies from a few centimetres to fully life-sized. Mostly cast in bronze, they show in part virtuoso parallels in form or are worked in an archaic style. The history of their origin and their religious meaning are for the most part unknown through lack of written documentation and interpretations differ widely. They are usually considered to be of Italic origin, but this explanation is unsatisfactory since the three-horned motif cannot be found in Roman art and literature. On the other hand, the three-horned motif does appear for the first time from the 8th to 7th centuries BC in Sardinia, having probably been imported from the Near East by the Phoenicians and possibly from thence reaching the Gallic area. A possible starting point for this are archaic stone engravings in Mouriès in the South of France from the 5th to 4th centuries BC which show four-legged animals with three horns.
Three-horned, god-like creatures either in anthropomorphic or taurine shape also occur in the Indian Mohenjo Daro Culture, appear on Accadian seal cylinders and in the form of so-called “Luristan bronzes” and can also be found in Late-Minoan Crete. These may possibly be representations divine beings that originally were closely related to mythic-cosmological ideas.
Prendendo spunto dalla descrizione di un disegno finora sconosciuto, datato 14 maggio 1832 e raffigurante l'antica borgata di San Gavino, l'Autore analizza diversi aspetti inediti legati alla basilica romanica omonima ed alle architetture... more
Prendendo spunto dalla descrizione di un disegno finora sconosciuto, datato 14 maggio 1832 e raffigurante l'antica borgata di San Gavino, l'Autore analizza diversi aspetti inediti legati alla basilica romanica omonima ed alle architetture del compendio di Monte Agellu, all'epigrafia, alla storia ed all'abbigliamento tradizionale della città di Porto Torres (SS).
When and why did the Phoenicians initiate long-term connections between the Levant and western Europe? This is one of the most hotly debated questions in ancient Mediterranean history and cultural research. In this study, we use silver to... more
When and why did the Phoenicians initiate long-term connections between the Levant and western Europe? This is one of the most hotly debated questions in ancient Mediterranean history and cultural research. In this study, we use silver to answer this question, presenting the largest dataset of chemical and isotopic analyses of silver items from silver hoards found in Phoenician homeland sites. Intertwining lead isotope analysis of silver items with precise archaeological context and chronology, we provide analytical evidence for the onset of Phoenician westward expansion. We suggest that the quest for silver instigated a long, exploratory phase, first in Anatolia (Asia Minor) and Sardinia, and subsequently in the Iberian Peninsula. This phase preceded the establishment of sustainable , flourishing Phoenician colonies in the West by over a century. In so doing, our results buttress the "precolonization" theory, accord it a firm chronological framework, and demonstrate that the quest for silver (and probably other metals) was an incentive for Phoenician westward expansion. Furthermore, our results show that the Phoenicians introduced innovative silver production methods to historic Europe. silver | lead isotope analysis | Phoenicians | Sardinia | Iberia
A proposed genetic relationship between Basque (Vasconic) and the North Caucasian language family. | The story that emerges from the coordination of linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence involves farming colonies, spurred by... more
A proposed genetic relationship between Basque (Vasconic) and the North Caucasian language family. | The story that emerges from the coordination of linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence involves farming colonies, spurred by the increase in population that results from agriculture, migrating in boats from Anatolia in search of new farming lands along the Mediterranean. These Neolithic farmers were acquainted with the cultivation of grain and pulse crops, kept small and large cattle and swine, and practiced dairying. They, or their descendants elsewhere along the Mediterranean coast, reached the coasts of France and Spain some 7500 - 7700 years ago.32 As they worked their way inland the colonists eventually mixed with the hunter-gatherer populations they encountered, many of whom they converted to the agricultural way of life; this is confirmed by recent genetic studies. “So who were the peoples who brought food production to western Europe in the seventh and sixth millennia BCE? The Basque language is the most likely candidate for a surviving descendant of the languages spoken by those early farmers.” Cultural words cited indicate a well-developed agricultural economy among the proto-Euskaro-Caucasian speakers in the 7th millennium BCE. “… Sardinians and Basques are the two modern populations with the highest genetic proportion of early farmer ancestry. … This suggests the Basque might be the remnant of a much larger Vasconic speaking area, suggesting a possibility that language family spread along with the first farmers.”